Ownership passed briefly to George Annells and Frank Stone, and then to Herbert Syme.
In the 1930s Ron Boland began his newspaper career as the horse racing writer, "Trafalgar".
Early motoring was another important feature of the newspaper from the 1920s, as was the advent of commercial radio and aviation.
From 1922 under the editorship of George Brickhill, the Mail was a well-presented newspaper with quality reading on a range of topics.
In 1924 May Gibbs's gumnut babies, "Bib and Bub", were the first full-scale comic page in the Mail.
Although horse racing and other sports were still covered in the pages of the Mail, space was also given to war news and the activities of the armed forces.